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SMART Goals

SMART Goals. 8 th Grade Skills Needed for Middle School and Postsecondary Success #2. Microsoft, 2011. Objectives. Today’s objectives are to: Review SMART goal setting Review your 6 th and 7 th grade Postsecondary Plans, PREP Profile, and Readiness Rubrics

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SMART Goals

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  1. SMART Goals 8th Grade Skills Needed for Middle School and Postsecondary Success #2 Microsoft, 2011

  2. Objectives • Today’s objectives are to: • Review SMART goal setting • Review your 6thand 7th grade Postsecondary Plans, PREP Profile, and Readiness Rubrics • Review your SMART goals from 6thand 7th grade • Develop SMART goals for 8thgrade

  3. Review: Why Set Goals? • When do you set goals for yourself? • Why do you set goals? • How does setting goals change your performance or how hard you work on something?

  4. Review: Types of Goals • Short-term goals are ones that you will achieve in the near future (e.g., in a day, within a week, or possibly within a few months). • Long-term goals are ones that you will achieve over a longer period of time (e.g., one semester, one year, five years, or twenty years). Weinstein & Awalt, 2001

  5. Review: SMART Goals • SMART Goals are: • Specific • Measurable • Achievable • Relevant • Timely Microsoft, 2011 Adapted from Doran, 1981

  6. Career Goal Example • Goal: to be a doctor • What is something I need to do to get there? • I will need to go to college and then medical school • I can write a long-term goal for graduating from medical school Microsoft, 2011

  7. Long-Term SMART Goal Example • What do I want to accomplish? • I want to graduate from medical school. • How will I know when I achieved my goal? • I will graduate. • Is this goal realistic? Do I have the right tools? • If I work hard, take the right classes, have support from my friends, family, and teachers, I know I can do it. • Why is this goal important? • I can’t become a doctor unless I graduate from medical school. • When can I achieve this goal? • I’m in 6th grade - I have 6 years of middle and high school, 4 years of college, and 4 years of medical school. • I can achieve this goal in 14 years

  8. Long-Term SMART Goal Example My goal: • I will graduate from medical school in 14 years. Microsoft, 2011

  9. Your SMART goal • Think of your own career goals and dreams for the future. • If you need help, refer to your Postsecondary Plan • Write one long-term SMART goal • The long-term goal can be the same as the one you had in 6th or 7th grade, or could be new if you have new thoughts about your future. • Share with a partner to check that the goal meets the SMART criteria

  10. Directions • Now, write 3 short-term goals (that you can accomplish this semester) that will help you reach your long-term goal. • Look at your past goals. Have you accomplished them? • If so, great job! • If not, are they still appropriate goals? Turn them into SMART goals! • If they’re no longer appropriate, come up with new goals.

  11. Preview • Next class we’ll talk more about the skills and knowledge you can start building now to prepare you to achieve your college and career goals!

  12. References • Doran, G. T. (1981). There's a S.M.A.R.T. way to write management's goals and objectives. Management Review, 70(11), 35-36. • Microsoft Office Images. (2011). Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/

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